Draft for 1000 words

Introduction:
I chose the project because of my passion for the subject areas of film and media as well as the marine aquatic hobby. I have done various short films and projects in the past and also have always been interested in the biology and beauty of aquatic animals.
I found that this would be a perfect way to express my skills for later use in a portfolio when applying for further studies. I also thought that creating a documentry film would be a challange as I have not approached a task like this before.

I chose to create a magazine insert for a favorite marine hobbiest magazine 'marine habitat' as well, where I could present my video. This way I set my self a detailed brief and had a defined target audience.Then I thought it necessary to create a Ghant chart to track and view my progression as well as creating myself targets and goals to reach the deadline. I would present my work online, on blogger.com. I have used this in the past and found that I could use it both at school and at home without the worry of loosing my work or forgetting to bring it to school.

I started to research into critical thoery and analysed 'Communicating Ideas with film, video and multimedia' This book showed me Sheltons communication theory and gave me a grounding to base my content upon. I learnt the best ways to project my ideas and designed my video around these bearings.(explain specific elements of the theory that influenced my video)

I then researched various areas the i would need to know when making print work for a dvd like this. (magazine layout, CD packing, Marine species deatabase, Photoshop, conventions of magazine and buying the amrine habitat magazine.)

Then I looked into researh for a video of this type including various videos of using Adobe premiere, documentry filming, interviewing techniques, technical analysis, audeince research.
I started to plan what aspects I wanted in my video. I began thinking about the 'treatment' of my video which is an overall paragraph that summarises the content, as now i was able to gaina rough idea of what elements to include. I knew that i wanted it to be...

I then started to contact The london sea life centre...I explained what I wanted to do and then came across filming permissions and staff on holiday etc...When most was cleared I was able to send a list of questions to Matt Haworth as I had learnt to do this from a video I watched in research. I was cleared to start filming and a date was planned.

I then storyboarded the entire video and prepared for filming on the 13th of November. I bagan to draft and ararnge my magazine layout cover.To track my progress I took print screens and uploaded pictured of my sketches onto my blog.t haworth

Then came the process of filming. I arrived at 10am....filmed etc met matt haworth. How the filming went and what shots i got. The negative of way too much footage although this is good it takes ages to go through all the shots. Began editing the clips together on premiere cs5.5 and matching up audio and video, (this proved to be hard to match because of the two different angles). I used the blog to print screen my editing.

Filming

I have conducted my filming and am very happy with how it turned out. I arrived at the Sea Life Aquarium at 10am as agreed and met Matt Haworth. He showed me down to the coral section of the aquarium and I began to explain how he would be helping today. He had already printed out the email I had sent with the questions attached and he felt he was ready to talk. This was a good move and am happy I looked into the video of how to film for a documentry interview. He had prepared what he was going to say and this is essential for a good interview. I then interviewed Matt with the agreed questions and he answered with confidence. After, i was allowed to go back to the public viewing side of the tanks and film for as long as I needed throughout the whole aquarium. I spend about an hour filming various tanks as well as behind the tank for that 'behind the scenes' feel the audience will be wanting this is normally off limits to the public.

I gained over 20gb of footage that is usefull and feel i have enough to complete my video. Now all there is needed to be done is the magazine cover, insert and the editing process.

When watching a video shown in my 'critical source analysis' post on tips for interviewing, i earned that it is important to send the interview participant the questions before tovoide poor quality of response and short answers. I have begand to draft a list of questions for Matt Haworth to answer. They are listed below.

Questions for matt

A brief introduction of yourself and role in the centre. e.g, Matt Haworth, deputy head of corals section, been working for about x years…my job is to…

How many litres/gallons is the entire system in the London sea life centre?

-Is the reef/marine section run separately to the other displays (plumbing pipes etc, filtration units)?

What kind of lighting and light cycle do you use on the reef tank (halogens, LED, T5’s)?

How many and what kind of species are kept in the tank? (A brief rundown of the fish corals, invertibre etc.)

What is the size of the tank? (Dimensions, glass/acrylic width, capacity, how many pounds of live rock/sand?)

What is fed to the  fish/ corals/ invertebrates (frozen flake, brine shrimp etc.)?

Would you say that working at such a place is enjoyable and rewarding for an enthusiast like you?

Jamie Oliver update

I have managed to arrange a time to interview a memeber of staff through various emails between myelf and Jamie. This is the email he sent me regarding filming dates. Although i am able to film in the centre there is still an issue of timings, i will have to adjust my Gantt chart to make room for the extended period of time allowed for filming and editings due to this unforseen set back.

Hi henry,

Our coral section head, Matt haworth,
has agreed to be interviewed. However,
he is on holiday for 2 weeks from next
week so the earliest you would be able
to tinterview is Tuesday 13th
November at 10am.

Please let me know if this is ok and I will
confirm with matt.

Many thanks,

Jamie

Jamie oliver

Deputy Curator